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Thinking a lot about music today and the hurricane. As I was walking by, the record store nearby had a display of the new Death Cab cd and, just as I started to look, they began to play the cd inside. Bought it. Love it. Feeling guilty, mixed feelings about buying indie white bands music. Like I try to feel empowered about listening to poc
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Lousiana, Mississippi, and the other areas fucked up were so poor to begin with and then this shit happens. I think by "anarchy" on the streets they mean "poor black people are on the streets because they're houses are even more devastated than before." I just don't think the leadership in this situation or the rest of the country understand how changing this is. 3 months to clean up?! Please, it'll be years. I wonder if this will force people to finally deal with the millions of people living in poverty in that part of the country. I feel like people are so blind to domestic poverty and that's compounded with peoples' general negative opinions about black folks and the South. I just feel hurt and totally tense and worried for these people and their communities.
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